A commercial trawler recently made an unusual catch off the coast of Albania — a ghostly white deep-sea shark known as the ...

A ghostly white deep-sea shark has been discovered off the coast of Albania.The critically endangered angular roughshark ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

Ruins of the Roman-era port of Aquileia have been submerged in northeast Italy’s Grado Lagoon for some time as the waters of the Adriatic Sea swallowed the coastal remnants of history. But ...

Scientists have calculated the water temperature at which tiger sharks are most active and abundant. They say the sharks, which are second only to great whites in attacking people, prefer a balmy 22C.

It may be that great white sharks are rebounding across the world: following the bigger seal and sea lion populations, re-establishing themselves in their old hunting grounds, reclaiming the ...

While some shark populations have been increasing, bites have been decreasing per capita. Remarkably, there has never been an ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Norther ...

Typically, sharks are finned alive—brought aboard fishing vessels to have their fins sliced off, then thrown back into the sea, where they suffocate, bleed to death, or are eaten by other animals.

Australian scientists have found an unlikely accomplice in the fight against an exploding sea urchin problem that is stripping the continent's temperate reefs bare. The East Australian Current is ...

Jumping into the clear blue Adriatic Sea soon becomes my favourite way to start the day. A daily three-course lunch is included and served before the boat docks, with the likes of seafood risotto ...

What started as a study to better understand how lobsters prey on sea urchins instead discovered sharks also predate on the pest. Lobsters have long been known as a key predator of sea urchins.